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by vcxy 6y ago
Already mentioned, in julia just do rand(a). But if you didn't have that, couldn't you just switch out floor for ceil and have the exact equivalent for 1 based indexing?
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by vcxy 6y ago
You're absolutely right. I'll agree with the person you replied to as well though: displacing (at least some portion of) MATLAB use cases really would be a good goal for Julia. Personally, I managed to switch over 100% and Differe
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by vcxy 6y ago
My first car was a 1991 Civic hatchback. It was not built with a passenger door mirror.
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by vcxy 6y ago
Is this also a step towards easier screen sharing? The only reason I'm not on wayland is I occasionally need to screen share on Skype, zoom, and bluejeans.
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by vcxy 6y ago
It is a true fact, but it is not relevant to discussion, which I think I already made pretty clear. I don't actually care if you'd call it rationalist or not. Neither I nor the NYT are rationalist (either by hawkice's narrow
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by vcxy 6y ago
Just commenting on the first paragraph. Not going to touch the second. I'm not convinced his last name has anything to do with understanding him, rationalism, SSC, SSC's wider influence, etc any better. His thin pseudonym is what
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by vcxy 6y ago
This seems odd to me. I guess tinnitus symptoms can be intermittent, but it isn't tinnitus unless it is constant? What label is appropriate for someone like me with intermittent symptoms? Edit: sorry, I see about a million people are
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by vcxy 6y ago
Didn't quite get out in time. Lost what is a lot of money to me, but very little to most people on HN. I think there is a weird dynamic with us complete investing noobs though. A lot of us are kinda poor, or at least in debt. The &quot
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by vcxy 6y ago
Her shadow cuts off abruptly. Is this a green screen? Since there is already a dead comment about that, I'm guessing I'm wrong for some obvious reason, but I can't place it.
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by vcxy 6y ago
I really like this browser. The reason I don't use it is kind of silly: Scrolling with j/k works so much more nicely with vimium in firefox. It's such a small complaint, but it really is what is keeping me away.
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by vcxy 6y ago
I think there might be a lot of people here (my self included) that literally didn't know that about fireworks in modern parlance. It's because talking about fireworks just doesn't ever come up in my life. But I think "m
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by vcxy 6y ago
From your source, Fox is further right than Bellingcat is left, and Bellingcat is much better on factual reporting. I understand what you're saying about getting news about conflicts from a particular point of view, but your source see
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by vcxy 6y ago
I'm certainly not a top 1% athlete. I might be top 1% in athleticism, but if you're restricting to athletes... Definitely not. There is no way I could make the same progress at home as I've been getting with my trainer for th
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by vcxy 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. On the original topic, I actually think we agree for the most part. On the slightly broader topic of people complaining about names too much in general, I totally agree. I have a bad habit of pitting my self
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by vcxy 6y ago
You're definitely right, but it doesn't change that, at least from the inside, the parent comment seems to be accurately describing the cognitive dynamic. I'm married and in my 30s. We aren't planning to have kids, we ha
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by vcxy 6y ago
I did make it to the end of your comment. Your comment presupposed the reason us nerds (how is this an insult on HN of all places?) didn't think the name was a good idea was searching and branding. I was saying my problem with it was o
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by vcxy 6y ago
I think you're not realizing how ubiquitous TeX, and the executable `tex` are. It seems like a bad idea to overlap with something so commonly already installed.
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by vcxy 6y ago
Definitely different to my American ear as well.
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by vcxy 6y ago
Huh, I didn't realize it was pronounced that way outside of the US. Definitely a blind spot for me.
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by vcxy 6y ago
In fact they are not pronounced the same. English is weird, sure, but I think if you have that kind of misconception then it's going to seem far stranger. "Loose" rhymes with "juice", "lose" rhymes with &q
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by vcxy 6y ago
I don't see the contradiction. There are so so many things that our immune system eliminates for us every day successfully without so much as noticeable inflammation. It's probably higher than 99.9% of things. This coronavirus is
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by vcxy 6y ago
The part of the immune system being described is the germinal center reaction. The 1 million times faster mutation rate only occurs for B-cells dividing in these structures and it's caused by some kind of chemical signaling (the name h
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by vcxy 6y ago
So, you seem to have only met a certain kind of atheist. I don't really want to say more about that in particular because it feels like I will be accused of proselytizing. What I will say is that I think you're reading too much in
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by vcxy 6y ago
As someone who grew up in a fire trap of a falling apart trailer that was 25 years older than me deep in the Appalachian mountains, generally what most would consider poor as hell for an American, I was homeschooled. You can try and convinc
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by vcxy 6y ago
I assure you my Linux machines do not.
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by vcxy 6y ago
It happens that the p in pwd actually does historically mean print from multics, but honestly I just do not care about that, let the p mean whatever you want. My inner monologue will always be "present working directory" even thou
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by vcxy 6y ago
The 'p' in 'grep' actually does mean print.
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by vcxy 6y ago
I think long lines are (were? [1] seems to be a new feature) a well known problem in emacs even without a custom config. There have been ways to work around this for awhile I think, but as far as I know emacs -Q isn't one of them. [1]
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by vcxy 6y ago
Interesting. I do have digital backups of all (or, nearly all... some are hard to find) of my physical books. I didn't make them from my own copy of course, but I still consider my digital library to be a backup of my physical bookshel
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by vcxy 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand what it means to be the reciprocal of agnostic, but I very much believe that the entire concept of deities is nonsense. People who call themselves agnostic tend to disagree, and people that call themselves ath

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